Manufacturer catalog
Noricum is the Austrian-origin artillery manufacturer lineage associated with the GH N-45 155 mm gun-howitzer, a Voest-Alpine/Noricum refinement of Gerald Bull's GC-45 design. The name now appears in public sources through T&T Technology and Trading's Noricum Group-linked production rights, support, spares, and marketing activity for GHN-45-family artillery.
1 weaponsNoricum's public defense-industry role centers on the GH N-45, a 155 mm 45-caliber towed gun-howitzer refined from Gerald Bull's GC-45 design. Forecast International describes Noricum/Voest-Alpine redesign work beginning in 1979, serial production in the early 1980s, the later abandonment of ordnance business by Noricum/Voest-Alpine Maschinenbau und Handel GmbH, and the T&T Technology Trading purchase of the Noricum Division's GH N-45 rights, barrels, spares, and unsold pieces.
Current Noricum-linked public information appears through T&T Technology and Trading GmbH, which describes itself as a NORICUM Group subsidiary focused on 155 mm howitzer artillery systems, patents, licensing rights, stock material, marketing, project management, and customer support. T&T's own product and service pages still present GHN-45 A1, GHN-45 APU, GC-45 support, spare parts, overhaul, and training as its core public artillery business.
Forecast International identifies the GH N-45 as a T&T/Noricum-sponsored towed 155 mm artillery system and describes Noricum/Voest-Alpine's redesign of the GC-45 into the GH N-45.
Sources: Forecast International GH N-45, T&T GHN-45 Product
The cataloged AH-1 record covers the Chinese WA-021/PLL01 155 mm family. It is listed here as a Noricum-derived technology-lineage system: open references connect the Chinese family to GC-45/GHN-45 technology transfer, while its public weapon record remains a Norinco-manufactured system.
Sources: GlobalSecurity GC-45, GlobalSecurity WAC-021Forecast International says Noricum/Voest-Alpine began redesigning GC-45 components in 1979 to improve handling and performance for the GH N-45.
Sources: Forecast International GH N-45
Forecast International reports that T&T Technology Trading purchased the Noricum Division and associated GH N-45 production rights, unsold pieces, barrels, and spare parts.
Sources: Forecast International GH N-45
T&T's Thailand activity timeline states that it produced and delivered 54 GH N-45 A1 guns to the Royal Thai Army between 1995 and 1999, while Forecast International separately notes a Thai follow-on order after T&T began offering the system internationally.
Sources: T&T Thailand Timeline, Forecast International GH N-45
T&T's partner-company timeline lists a 2014 license agreement with Bharat Forge, a 2015 development agreement for a 155 mm 52-caliber gun and automatic loading system, 2022 license production for 155 mm GH N-45, and a 2023 license agreement with VISMAG in Poland.
Sources: T&T Partner Companies Timeline
Noricum's public record is split between the original Austrian Voest-Alpine/Noricum organization and later Swiss T&T/Noricum production-rights ownership; this profile groups directly sourced GH N-45 manufacturer, support, and licensing attributions under one public manufacturer label. The AH-1/WA-021/PLL01 notable-system link reflects technology lineage, not Noricum manufacture of the Chinese weapon record.
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